In Kyiv, where shelling continues, Russian troops continue to meet heavy resistance in an attempt to encircle the capital.
While Russian forces make little progress around Kyiv and Kharkov in particular, the area around the airport of Lvov, a city in western Ukraine so far untouched by hostilities, has been hit by Russian missiles. According to Andrei Sadovoy, the mayor of this large city near the Polish border, the blow fell on a stationary aircraft repair plant, no one was injured. But “this is a blow to the humanitarian hub, where there are more than 200,000 internally displaced people,” said Maxim Kozitsky, governor of the Lviv region. According to him, this shows “that they are fighting (…) against the population.”
On Sunday, the Russian army had already bombed a military base in the Lviv region, killing at least 30 people.
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In Kyiv, where shelling continues, Russian troops continue to meet heavy resistance in an attempt to encircle the capital. About fifteen kilometers east of the center of Kyiv, Russian soldiers made little progress. The Ukrainians still control the city of Brovary.
The priorities are (…) a ceasefire and an end to the war. We have an obligation (…) to assume our international obligations and to work for peace (….) throughout the world.
Xi Jinping.
In Kharkov, in the north of the country, Russian shelling also continues, but the city, surrounded by Russian troops on several sides and main directions, is not yet surrounded. Little by little everywhere, “the Russian troops have problems with communications and the supply of food and fuel,” welcomed Anna Malyar, Vice Minister of Defense of Ukraine.
During a nearly two-hour videoconference exchange, Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping discussed Ukraine. “The priorities are (…) a ceasefire and an end to the war,” the Chinese leader said, according to Beijing media. “It is up to us (…) to assume our international obligations and work for peace (…) around the world,” Xi Jinping assured Joe Biden. The American president urged the number one Chinese to distance himself from Russia.
Putin disappears from the screen
After meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of “delaying” negotiations on the conflict, believing that Kyiv had “unrealistic” demands. Negotiations with the Russians are going “very hard,” admitted Andrei Sibiga, deputy head of the Ukrainian General Staff.
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Hours after convening his Security Council, Vladimir Putin suddenly disappeared from the screens in the middle of a major concert in Moscow commemorating the annexation of Ukrainian Crimea in 2014. In front of tens of thousands of people on stage, the Russian leader was praising the heroism of the soldiers who fought in the war in Ukraine, when suddenly the public TV channel Rossiya 24 began to show other moments of the same event. It took fifteen minutes for the channel to resume the delayed broadcast of Putin’s speech. The problem is due to a “technical server failure,” according to Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman. At the end of the day, Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron were to have a new telephone interview.
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